US Patent Issued to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on March 25 for "Kelch domain containing 7B (KLHDC7B) variants and uses thereof" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,627, issued on March 25, was assigned to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Kelch domain containing 7B (KLHDC7B) variants and uses thereof" was invented by Kavita Praveen (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Giovanni Coppola (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Manuel Allen Revez Ferreira (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Lauren Gurski (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Aris Baras (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Meghan Drummond Samuelson (Tarrytown, N.Y.) and Goncalo Abecasis (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods of treating subjects having hearing loss, methods of identifying subjects having an increased risk of developing hearing loss, and meth...